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International Journal of Marine Science 2013, Vol.3, No.20, 158-165
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Table 1 List of macrophytes and their cover in the two plots (a, b) of the back-reef area of the
Posidonia oceanica
barrier reefs off
Santa Liberata (Orbetello, Tuscany, Italy), in July 2005-2006 and August 2011
2005 2006 2011
CYANOBACTERIA 1
Lyngbya aestuarii
Liebman ex Gomont
1
1
1
2
Lyngbya
sp
.
1
1
1
RHODOPHYTA
3
Antithamnion
sp.
1
4
Ceramium
sp
.
1
1
5
Ceramium codii
(H. Richards) Feldmann- Mazoyer
1
1
1
6
Chondria pygmaea
Garbary-Vandermeulen
1
7
Dasya rigidula
(Kutz.) Ardissone
1
1
8
Erythrocladia
sp.
1
9
Erythrotrichia carnea
(Dillwyn) J. Agardh
1
1
10
Flabellia petiolata
(Turra) Nizamuddin
1
1
1
11
Erythrotrichia carnea
(Dillwyn) J. Agardh
1
1
12
Fosliella
sp.
1
1
1
13
Gracilaria
sp.
1
1
14
Heterosiphonia crispella
(c. Agardh) Wynne
1
15
Herposiphonia secunda
(C.Agardh) Ambronn
1
16
Jania rubens
v.
rubens
(L.) Lamour.
4
4
3
17
Laurencia obtusa
(Huds.) Lamour.
1
1
18
Lithophyllum cystoseirae
(Hauck) Heydrich
1
19
Lophosiphonia
sp.
1
20
Peyssonnelia
sp.
1
21
Peyssonnelia rubra
1
22
Polysiphonia scopulorum
Harvey
1
23
Polysiphonia sertularioides
(Grateloup) J. Agardh
1
24
Polysiphonia
sp.
1
1
1
25
Spyridia filamentosa
(Wulfen) Harvey
1
1
OCHROPHYTA
26
Cladostephus spongiosum
(Huds.) C. Ag. f.
verticillatus
(Lightf.) Prud’Homme v. Reine 1
1
1
27
Dictyota dichotoma
(Huds.) Lamour.
1
1
2
28
Halopteris filicina
(Grateloup) Kütz.
1
1
1
29
Lomentaria ercegovicii
Verlaque-Budouresque- Meinesz-Giraud-Marcot-Coqueugniot 1
1
30
Padina pavonia
(L.) Lamour.
3
3
2
31
Sphacelaria fusca
(Huds.) Gray
1
1
1
32
Sphacelaria rigidula
Kütz.
1
1
1
33
Stypocaulon scoparium
(L.) Kütz.
1
1
1
CHLOROPHYTA
34
Acetabularia acetabulum
(L.) Silva
1
1
35
Caulerpa racemosa
var.
cylindracea
(Sonder) Verlaque-Huisman Boudouresque
2
4
2
36
Chaetomorpha linum
(Müll.) Kütz.
1
1
1
37
Cladophora albida
(Huds.) Kütz.
1
1
1
38
Cladophora prolifera
(Roth) Kütz.
2
2
2
39
Cladophora sp.
1
4
40
Codium vermilara
1
41
Penicillus capitatus
Lamarck
2
2
2
42
Rhizoclonium tortuosum
(Dillwyn) Kütz
.
1
1
1
43
Ulva
sp.
1
44
Ulva laetevirens
Areschoug
1
45
Valonia aegagropila
C. Agardh
1
1
1
46
Valonia macrophysa
Kütz
.
1
MAGNOLIOPHYTA 47
Nanozostera noltii
(Hornem.) Tomlinson-Posluzny
2
2
3
Note: Cover scores 1, 2, 3 and 4 for <5%, 5-25%, 25-50% and >50% cover